Leveraging Multimodal Dialog Technology for the Design of Automated and Interactive Student Agents for Teacher Training
David Pautler, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Kirby Cofino, Patrick Lange, David Suendermann-Oeft
Abstract
We present a paradigm for interactive teacher training that leverages multimodal dialog technology to puppeteer custom-designed embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in student roles. We used the open-source multimodal dialog system HALEF to implement a small-group classroom math discussion involving Venn diagrams where a human teacher candidate has to interact with two student ECAs whose actions are controlled by the dialog system. Such an automated paradigm has the potential to be extended and scaled to a wide range of interactive simulation scenarios in education, medicine, and business where group interaction training is essential.- Anthology ID:
- W18-5029
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Venue:
- SIGDIAL
- SIG:
- SIGDIAL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 249–252
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-5029
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-5029
- Cite (ACL):
- David Pautler, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Kirby Cofino, Patrick Lange, and David Suendermann-Oeft. 2018. Leveraging Multimodal Dialog Technology for the Design of Automated and Interactive Student Agents for Teacher Training. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 249–252, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Leveraging Multimodal Dialog Technology for the Design of Automated and Interactive Student Agents for Teacher Training (Pautler et al., SIGDIAL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/W18-5029.pdf